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Overall Concept & Design of a Children's Book
Composing a Storyboard for a Children's Book
How to Mock-up a Children's Book
How to Write a Children's Story
How to Edit for a Children's Book
How to Illustrate for a Children's Book
How to Edit Illustrations for a Children's Book
Designing the Cover of a Children's Book
Properly Formatting a Printer for a Children's Book
Digitizing Illustrations for a Children's Book
Printing Options for a Children's Book
Printing Quality vs. Quantity for Publishing a Children's Book
Printing Time-Line for Publishing a Children's Book
Printing Costs for Publishing a Children's Book
Getting Feedback on Your Children's Book
Market & Sell Your Children's Book: Pt. 1
Market & Sell Your Children's Book: Pt. 2
Public Relations Campaign for Your Children's Book
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Summary: Learn how to design the cover for a children's book in this free how-to video on writing and publishing children's literature.
Angela Sage Larsen is a professional artist and published children's book author.read more
" Hi! I’m Angela Sage Larsen. On behalf of expertvillage.com, today, we’re going to talk about publishing your own children’s story. Please visit my web site at petalwinkthefairy.com. When it comes to designing the cover of your children’s book, it usually is the case that you can judge a book by its cover. My team and I, that is my husband, my editor, my graphic designer friend, and I, all went to our favorite book store and setup a couple of different designs for the cover of the book so that we could see which one popped out. Here is Petalwink with a big picture of her face. We knew we liked the cloud theme, since it was Petalwink Learns to Fly, then we did one of Petalwink flying. What we settled on was this cover, because as we could see with all the other books when we put that cover out that one really popped out and attracted our attention. Especially because not everyone knows Petalwink yet, it was important that they be immediately attracted to the book and want to know more about it. We noticed that there were definitely some key colors that our eyes are attracted to. The green, the white, and the blue definitely made it pop off the page, so we decided to design a cover specifically around what was going to attract people to the cover. While there was a lot of work to design the other covers, we were really pleased with the one that we ended up with."
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